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By Ken Hanley
IS Guerrilla
Well, they’ve done it again.
Those hyper-intelligent folks at the Economist have made the call: the days of the wild entrepreneurial IT company are over, and all the weird technical cats that hung around in ’em — the oddballs we all knew and loved — are rapidly becoming an endangered species.
Worst of all, it means that we IT types are no longer sexy just by virtue of the type of work that we do. Damn.
Consolidation in the IT industry is just serving to nail the lid on the sexiness coffin. PeopleSoft ain’t acquiring J.D. Edwards to get its hands on sexy software and people — they’re looking to bulk up in an industry where size increasingly matters, where words like “cool” and “revolutionary” are taking a back seat to words like “standardization” and “cost control.” Not a titillating word in the bunch.
Our secret’s out. The business folks have figured out that IT types can, and should, be treated like people in any other business. We don’t nee...